2^nd Workshop on Bitcoin Research

Call for Papers

The recent success of Bitcoin, a decentralized cryptographic currency, has raised new research questions on the opportunities and risks of virtual currencies. A handful of research papers have appeared in multiple disciplines, spanning a range of outlets, including top security conferences, legal journals, and reports of international financial organizations. This workshop aims to bring together interested scholars who study virtual currencies, Bitcoin in particular, and their supporting ecosystems from a technical or socio-economic perspective. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) empirical and theoretical studies of:

• Bitcoin protocol and extensions (cryptography, scripting language etc.)
• Adoption and transition dynamics
• Threat models and attacks
• Anonymity and privacy
• Metrics and measurements
• Proof-of-work, -stake, -burn, and alternative defenses against Sybil attacks
• Bitcoin peer-to-peer network
• Transaction graph analysis
• User studies
• Economic and monetary aspects
• Business models for intermediaries
• Relation to other payment systems
• Financial markets
• Regulation and law enforcement
• Fraud detection and financial crime prevention
• Forensics and monitoring
• Legal, ethical and societal aspects of (decentralized) virtual currencies
• Case studies (e.g., of adoption, attacks, forks, scams, …)
• Bitcoin derivatives
• New applications

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline	October 26, 2014
Author Notification	November 23, 2014
Early registration deadline	December 12, 2014
Final Papers	December 31, 2014
Workshop	January 30, 2015

Submission

The workshop solicits submissions of manuscripts that represent significant and novel research contributions. Submissions must not substantially overlap with works that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submissions should follow the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science format and should be no more than 15 pages including references and well-marked appendices. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Authors who seek to submit their works to journals may opt-out by publishing an extended abstract only.

Shorter papers are also welcome.

All submissions will be reviewed double-blind, and as such, must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references.

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Program Chairs

Nicolas Christin	Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Emin Gün Sirer	Cornell University, USA

Program Committee

Gavin Andresen	Bitcoin Foundation, USA
Elli Androulaki	IBM Zürich, Switzerland,
Rainer Böhme	University of Münster, Germany
Joseph Bonneau	Princeton University, USA
Srdjan Capkun	ETH Zürich, Germany
Jeremy Clark	Concordia University, Canada
Stefan Dziembowski	University of Warsaw, Poland
Benjamin Edelman	Harvard University, USA
Ittay Eyal	Cornell University, USA
Christina Garman	Johns Hopkins University, USA
Matt Green	Johns Hopkins University, USA
Joshua Kroll	Princeton University, USA
Sarah Meiklejohn	University College London, UK
Tyler Moore	Southern Methodist University, USA
Andrew Miller	University of Maryland, USA
Roger Wattenhofer	ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Nicholas Weaver	ICSI, USA
Aviv Zohar	Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel